Walter Lieck

{{Short description|German actor (1906–1944)}} {{Infobox person | name = Walter Lieck | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 16 June 1906 | birth_place = Berlin, German Empire | death_date = 21 November 1944 | death_place = Berlin, Nazi Germany | other_names = | occupation = Actor, screenwiter | years_active = 1934-1944 (film) }} '''Walter Lieck''' (1906–1944) was a German stage and film actor.<ref>https://www.filmportal.de/person/walter-lieck_57e150bffd1b40dcae9e93fe50bb4f89</ref> He played supporting roles in German cinema during the Nazi era. He was also a playwright and occasional screenwriter. He earned the disapproval of the Nazi regime for refusing to divorce his half-Jewish wife . He was imprisoned for two months at Esterwegen concentration camp.<ref>Weniger p.225</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Two Seals'' (1934) * ''Dangerous Crossing'' (1937) * ''Congo Express'' (1939) * ''Renate in the Quartet'' (1939) * ''Her First Experience'' (1939) * ''Man for Man'' (1939) * ''The Sensational Casilla Trial'' (1939) * ''Wibbel the Tailor'' (1939) * ''Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * ''My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1939) * ''Small Town Poet'' (1940) * ''Twilight'' (1940) * ''Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * ''Riding for Germany'' (1941) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Annelie'' (1941) * ''Destiny'' (1942) * ''The Night in Venice'' (1942) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''Light of Heart'' (1943) * ''Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * ''Münchhausen'' (1943) * ''The Bath in the Barn'' (1943) * ''Mask in Blue'' (1943) * ''The Impostor'' (1944) * ''Dog Days'' (1944) {{div col end}}

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==Bibliography== * Weniger, Kay. ''Zwischen Bühne und Baracke: Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945''. Metropol, 2008.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0509551}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lieck, Walter}} Category:1906 births Category:1944 deaths Category:German male film actors Category:German male stage actors Category:20th-century German screenwriters Category:Male actors from Berlin